Bee Body Size and Foraging Behavior Predict the Pollination Role of Bees in a Buzz-Pollinated Plant Community. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe investigated how bee traits influence pollination success in a buzz‐pollinated plant community. Larger body size and floral sonication strongly predicted stigma contact, a proxy for pollination efficiency, while longer handling times were associated with reduced effectiveness.
Mesquita-Neto JN, Schlindwein C.
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Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Fire is a major form of environmental disturbance, and in recent years, due to anthropogenic climate change and anthropogenic land management, we are seeing increases in the frequency and intensity of fires. With bees being an important, diverse group of pollinators that is facing declines globally, understanding how they respond to fires is ...
Prendergast KS, Campbell JW, Bateman PW.
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Hylaeus (Hylaeana) dominicalis, a new species and the first colletid bee recorded from Dominica, Lesser Antilles [PDF]
, 2020 A new species of colletid bee, Hylaeus (Hylaeana) dominicalis Gibbs, new species, is described and figured from the Commonwealth of Dominica. The new species can be distinguished from consubgeneric species in the Caribbean Islands based on the ...
Gibbs, Jason
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Role of forest edges and other seminatural linear landscape features in structuring wild bee habitat connectivity in intensively managed landscapes. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Pollinator conservation schemes typically focus on conserving existing, restoring degraded, or creating new wild bee habitats. Their effectiveness depends on dispersal corridors enabling habitat colonization by bees. However, the role of seminatural linear landscape structures (LLS) in connecting pollinator communities across intensively ...
Sydenham MAK +6 more
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Solitary Bees Acquire and Deposit Bacteria via Flowers: Testing the Environmental Transmission Hypothesis Using <i>Osmia lignaria</i>, <i>Phacelia tanacetifolia</i>, and <i>Apilactobacillus micheneri</i>. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe followed a sequence of flight cage experimental steps where we allowed bees to interact with bacteria‐inoculated flowers (10:30 am), before let them interact with new uninoculated flowers (11:30 am). Later, we allowed a new set of bees (1:30 pm) to interact with these shared flowers.
Argueta-Guzmán M +2 more
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Entomological Communications, 2020 We report the first record of the neotropical bee subgenus Hylaeus (Gongyloprosopis) Snelling, 1982 (Colletidae) for Brazil. Additionally, an overview of the current geographic records for the three known species of the subgenus is presented.
Thiago Mahlmann +3 more
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Hybridization between wild and cultivated potato species in the Peruvian Andes and biosafety implications for deployment of GM potatoes [PDF]
, 2008 The nature and extent of past and current hybridization between cultivated potato and wild relatives in nature is of interest to crop evolutionists, taxonomists, breeders and recently to molecular biologists because of the possibilities of inverse gene ...
Celis Gamboa, B.C. +4 more
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Los Colletidae de la Sierra de Guadarrama (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
Graellsia, 2005 Tras el estudio de diversas colecciones entomológicas y la revisión de bibliografía de referencia, los autores estiman que la fauna de colétidos de la Sierra de Guadarrama (centro de la Península Ibérica) está compuesta por 42 especies (31 pertenecientes
F. J. Ortiz-Sánchez, C. Ornosa
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A new species of Colletes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Colletidae) from northern Florida and Georgia, with notes on the Colletes of those states [PDF]
, 2016 Colletes ultravalidus Hall & Ascher, new species, is described from several sites in northwestern Florida and southeastern Georgia. It is a member of the inaequalis species group, very similar to C.
Almquist, David T +2 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2003 Colletes anchusae Noskiewicz, 1924 and C. wolfi Kuhlmann, 1999 (Colletidae) are closely related bee species with vicariant distributions, the former occurring in east and southeast Europe and Turkey, the latter restricted to the Italian peninsula ...
Andreas MÜLLER, Michael KUHLMANN
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